Change the minimum length of an abbreviated object identifier in the
commit message gitweb tries to turn into link from 8 hexchars to 7.
This arbitrary minimum length of 8 was introduced in bfe2191 ("gitweb:
SHA-1 in commit log message links to "object" view", 2006-12-10), but
the default abbreviation length is 7, and has been for a long time.
It's still possible to reference SHA1s down to 4 characters in length,
see v1.7.4-1-gdce9648's MINIMUM_ABBREV, but I can't see how to make
git actually produce that, so I doubt anyone is putting that into log
messages in practice, but people definitely do put 7 character SHA1s
into log messages.
I think it's fairly dubious to link to things matching [0-9a-fA-F]
here as opposed to just [0-9a-f], that dates back to the initial
version of gitweb from 161332a ("first working version",
2005-08-07). Git will accept all-caps SHA1s, but didn't ever produce
them as far as I can tell.
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
gitweb/gitweb.perl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index cba7405..92b5e91 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -2036,7 +2036,7 @@ sub format_log_line_html {
my $line = shift;
$line = esc_html($line, -nbsp=>1);
- $line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{8,40})\b}{
+ $line =~ s{\b([0-9a-fA-F]{7,40})\b}{
$cgi->a({-href => href(action=>"object", hash=>$1),
-class => "text"}, $1);
}eg;
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2.9.3